In all likelihood,participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner because they were concerned that the experimenter would be disappointed or perhaps even angry with them.Such concerns reflect the power of _______ to induce obedience to authority.

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Normative social influence refers to the desire to be accepted and approved of by others, and to avoid disapproval and rejection. In Milgram's experiments, participants may have felt that administering the shocks was necessary to satisfy the experimenter's expectations and avoid criticism or punishment, even at the expense of causing harm to the learner. Thus, their behavior was influenced by normative social pressure to conform to the perceived expectations of authority figures.

In All Likelihood,participants in Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments Conducted in the 1960s